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INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM:

28 February 1967
TO . : “Director, “Domestic Contact Service fa
SUBJECT: BARNES, Winfred Clark foe

PILE NO: 496 289 a Jr CIPSY

1, Feference is made to your request for security checks on the subject
person as a source of intelligence. information. -

- | 2 This is to inform you that tha. necessary checks have been completed with
1 the following results: a

a. K] No additional information has been obtained, except for such ,
biographic information as indicated below or in the attachment.

‘Information has been received that Subject was investigated with |
favorable results in

Certain information has been received and appears in’ the attach-
ment which your Division will wish to consider in determining
the extent and. level of your use of Subject. . : a

3. It is to be noted that our checks were made onthe basis of the identifying
- information you furnished or in an attachment to this memorandum. Should it be dis-.
‘closed that this infordation is erroneous or that Subject is known by a different - .
‘name, this Division should be notified imediately. a :

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STEVEN L.
- Oates, Personnel Security I Division

Attachment: - ve
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On i January 1967 a passport file of Winfred Clark BARNES was i
reviewed at the Passport Office, Department of State. The following
to a sumary of the information ‘contained thereint

Date of Birth: 2 ifay 1912 at Gatesville, Texas; verified by . :
birth certificate — / : See A

Father: Shaw Andrew BARNES; Date of Birth: 8 May 1862 at Kennedy,
Wa, . Texasy, current residence not given.

. WN thert Velma Blizabeth HARRIS; Date of Birth: & March 1888 at...
- _ ‘Thelza, Texas; current residence not given.

‘ en PASSPORT ISSUED! At Miami, “Florida on 27 January 1966, #6755310, for
; : : . a period of four veeks to visit Mexico, Guatemala,
: Costa Rica, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Argentina, ani 4
: a . Brazil for the purpose of tourism. - vee ease
tgs wee oe Ce omeiy ceue, Permanent eddresay 5350 Southwest 7éth Street .
mo oo, Miami, Florida :
. Mailing address: International Petroleum Company, Lta .
te ; '  ° 396 Alhambra Circle

; Coral Cables, Florida
; Occupation: | Director. :
Spouse: Lois Enquist BARNES; Date of Birth: 8 Marcy 1915
' at New Haven, Connecticut; current residence
_ not given; Wed: 17 February 1945; no information |
bye oa. ‘Whether or. not marriage has been terminated.

At tetamd , Floride on 27 Februsry 1961, #810331, for a
period of varying from one day to three weeks to visit
Bermuda, Bahamas, Jamice, Trinidad, British Guiana,
. Guadeloupe, Sarbedos and Suriname for tha purpose of

. business.
RENEWED: At Miami, Florida on ‘12 May 1964, fora.
period of ten days to visit Peru, Columbia,
_. amd other South. American countries for ths

_. Purpose of. bosiness.. os bee a

“ SUBJECT s firat passport was issued at Veshington, D. (
“. on 22 Pebruary 1957, #328617, for a period of indefinite —
. tire, to visit Bermuda, Hawes, Haiti, Trinidad, Jomica,

. Honduras, xl Salvedor, Costa Rica, Panema, . Micaregias .

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and Cuntemala for the purpose: of business ;

_' RENEWED; At Havana, Cuba on 2 separate. occasions:
‘ _ 13 February 1959 and 5 June 1959, for a period of
approximately wo on both reneval forms, countries

to visit and purpose of visit not given.

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BIOGRAPHIC DATA “A: 4 S79 7. a : : ,

fs. DATE AND PLACE OF GIRTH

BARNES, __Winfred____ Ciark nes Hay 1912, Gatesvilie, Texas _

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6. FULL mae or e7ouns:» DATE AND PLACE OF BI

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i 1964 - |Esso-2hter-Anuerica Inc. -~ {Coral Gables, Florida

. ' 1962 Internaticnal Petroleum Co. | Coral Gables, Florida _
| Beso Standard O11 S. A., Ltd. Coral Gables, Florida
i Beso Standard 011 (Cuba by)
7 1957 [Reso Stendard O11, S.A. .  |Havana, Cuba
1927 1955 Rumble O11 Company . ; DT CONTIvES

EDUCATION (High school, cotieoe, graduates work, <tc.)

Pearsall High School
“Pearsall, Texas ‘’

University of Texas .
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Op¢rationa, conducted by The Brookings Institution, were briefed by
. ranking Agency officials.

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Mr. Barnes attended the University of Texas.

He begar his career with Humble Oil & Refining Company, where he
held'various marketing positions before serving in the U. S. Army
from 1942 to 1946. He rejoined Humble as a District Sales Super-
visor at Corpus Christi, Texas, and later held the positions of District
Manager, Assistant Division Manager, and Marketing Manager in
several of Humble'’s marketing areas. He transferred to Esso Standard
Oil, S.A. in Havana as Marketing Manager in 19:7, and was General
Manager - Cuba Division at the time of the loss of that operation in
1960. Upon his relocation in Coral Gables, Florida in 1960, he became
Eastern Region Manager for Esso Standard Oil, S.A. Limited. Mr. Barnes
joined International Petroleum Company, Ltd. as Marketing Coordinator

in 1961 and was elected a Director of that company in 1964. Today he

is'a Director of Esso Inter-America Inc., with responsibility for
petroleum marketing, public relations, government relations, and

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COUNTRY cat ; a 7 REPORTNO. «= OO— B-3,168,138 :
SUBJECT Attitude of Segundo Cevallos, | ———_—ODATE DISTR. — 6 Oct 60 .

Key Official of Hational Bank ,
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P| oo REFERENCES
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DATE Sep 60 and earlie

PLACE & -Havans.
DATE ACQ. ! {Sep 60

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vs, national, graduate engioeer, on official on the staff of a large
oil company. . .

_ SOURCE:

: ; Seurce hac had years of experience in coxzpany operations outside the US
Oo and has been loceted in Cuba for many years. [Source to norzally available
: . for reinterrogation should this report generate additional requirczeats. }

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1. Im Sep 60°£ talied to an old friend who was president of one of the US-cued
tire companies recently interevened by the Castro. regime. By friend

stated that he hed recently contacted Segundo Cevalles, one of the - ,
top officials of the Rational Bank, in. coanection with obtaining approval
for some of the company’s US technicians to take their furniture and
appliances cut of Cubs. Cevallos said, "I don't went those technicians
ee _,. |€@ leave. We need then." At this, thé rubber cczpany official stated

ho" “leat 4¢ was too late and that the technicians had already gone.

Io . . . .
2. |Cevellos then made the statement that he was very much concerned about
the flight of technicians of all kinds frem Cubs. Ha said that the
revolution had been fought to give Cuba & more highly developed industry,
| but thet the technicians were leaving and industry uss being seriously
effected. an a
- | Cevalles then said, “Something is wrong. The revolution hes gotten off
4 the track. somevhere." He then added, "I heve got to talk to ‘Cha’ about
this.” - : ‘ .

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-~  &. -| Cevallos is a man of about 60-63 years, and hes = very foportant position, .
; in that he is in charge of granting foreign exchenge. My. friend said

that Cevallos is a very pleasant indiyiduel but seems to be a theorist,

@ professorial type who obviously has had little or no business experience.

‘Be has a background as © writer and philosopher, end apparently is

‘| @xtremely naive as evidenced by his comment that he would talk to "Che" -

Guevara about how the revolution had gotten off the track.

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*” paserve Personnel on short term activa duty (excepting individuals who are normally full-time employees of CIA, AEC, FBI, State or Defenes) anives the

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COUNTRY Cuba — Cae REPORT.NO.':’  OO—B-3,168,139 .

SUBJECT ‘Anti-Castro: Attitude of ICP Personnel DATE DISTR 6 Oct 60

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REFERENCES
DATE OF | Sep 60 end earlier
INFO. ' :
PLACE & Havana/Sep 60 ard earlier

DATE ACQ, I .
: THIS IS UNEVALUATED. INFORMATION

SOURCE: - Li national, graduate engineer, an official on the evaft of 6 large
ofl company.

Source hes bad years of expericece in company operations outside the
US and has been located in Cuba for many years. {Source 19 norzally
available for reintexrogation should this report generate additional

requirements. }
7 1. As of Sep 60 there eppesr to be coxa etgnificant éevelopzente cceurring
among personnel of the staff of eke Cuban Petroleun Iestitute. The
Institute has comasndsered a building of Reso Standard O11 SA for —

use es headquarters, and is currently engaged in mixing the personnel
of ‘all three intervened ofl coapanies in tha new headquarters.

2. The ebuffliag around of personnel bas further lovered the serale of
: the petroleus fndustry exployees, and I have been told that 95% are
ys _ ateongly in favor of the companies and against the Castro regina.

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3. Stace ICP established its new offices, indectrivation sessions cf exployees
have been scheduled on a twice-a-week basis. The first session was
bald recently and was concerned with the "Colored Problem of the World”.
Tho gist of the remarks of the conference leader was that Cubans were
. Of, Spanish ethnic origin, and because of the close ties of Spaniards
Be ami the Hoors for co many hundreds of years it had to be realized that.
‘all Cubans ‘bed colored blood, and should not make a distinction and
‘fhesié beve no prejudices coacerning people with colored blood, :

The second indoctrisatioa session vas headed by en overt Comunist fron
. the Texas Company. He delivered the straight Party Line, anti-US,
 ~anti-inperialist, anti-monopoly, "The Soviet Union 1a che great hope —
of ‘the world fer peece",. and only Communist ideology will survive, etc.

ne’ ‘also atated. that, "The Declaration ‘of Hevana of Fidel Castro vill

: be’ our doctrine,” and said thet it was desired to obtaia the signatures

ns 0£ tha whole population of Cuba to show that everyone was behind this wets
. doctrine. He then said in response to # question regetding what would |
happen to those who did not sign, "You are either for us or against us.”

6. At thie, one of the office girls who bad been a “strong Fiséltere got é =. .
and remarked that such comments reminded her of the. Batista days, and she

. strongly disapproved of any pressure tactics.
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7 One of the male office eaployees then stood and stated that he agreed
. besstily with her, and added that ic was not the intent-of the revolu-
tion to "gat into this sort of. business.” He then asked, “Why are we _ .
getting all thio Communist propaganda and why do we not hear anything about -
Josd Mart{?" His couments ware greeted with spplause, a :

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on the line concerning the way the. revolution hed felled the people of
Cuba, and had leaned far too much toward Commnism, ‘The conference ..
leader did not {nterrupt and following the conclusion of the employee's ~-
recarks did not even answer. He merely said, "That‘is' sll", got up

and |: walked out, However, the next scheduled indoctrination seasion -

8. A third zaplezee: stocd uy aad calked for 45 miautes, He really laid it

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was cancelled. a, |

Pog, Although mixing the employees of the three companies was doze doliborately | |

zp. to ‘break up a feeling of trust among employees who knew etch other, ond = fs
cw te dntroduce a feeling of fear concerning. strangers, there has been cleso ; | .

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.. 1 . - €@Gperation on the technical level between employees o£ at least two

: refineries. For example, technicians at Esco and Shell recently collaborated
: in shutting down the refineries without real justification, allegedly - moa,

- . because of HurricamPonna. When the word got cut that the rafinerisa - a

a were shutting dow, ICP officials rushed in and protested vigorously thet 7

there was no denger, and that the action should not be taken. The co“

i . oO technicians then said, “Well, it {8 too late now," and they kept the

: refineries shut down for three full deys. Both Shell and Roso ‘technicians

concerned enjoyed this minor act of sabotage hugely.

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. the cat plant. LPG is needed badly, co the technicians decided to keep
Fs the unfe chut down. ICP officials screamed that it was unnecessary
pe . aod ordered then to start, but tha technicians said that i¢ waa not
. Practical because it wae too difficult, and possibly dangerous, to stop

end start the wit. They aaid that the shortage of catalysts meade it
bos impossible to figure on keeping the unit going, and so it wes act the .
rics <<" péghe thing to do to start it at all. Consequently they beve been abla.

. : to keep the cat-units shut down completely since tha storm, :

i: 10. They also cooperated in dealying action when ‘they were ordared to’ stert

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is going to atteapt to skip the country as @ test, because many other
technicians of the ofl companies are desperate to flee Cubs and are
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COUNTRY Cuba! Se : pero NO. 00-ff -3,/68,137
SUBJECT  Besire of Oft Industry Technictans  oatéostn = DF augeh BO

to Plee Gube/EEfect on. Production —
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¥ DATE Ar. Havana/Sop 60 and earlier
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SOURCE: yg national, graduate engiieer, an official on the state 0 of a large
oi1)| company. . :

Source has bad years of experisnce in coupeny oparations outoide the US
@nd|has been lecsted in Cuba for many years. [Source is normally .
available for reinterrogatica okould thio report generate Sddieional
requirements. }

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a. A real body-blow could be given the Castro regina 12a faw selected.
‘technicians in the of] refineries ekipped the country. As an example ,-
at the Esso refinery there are four techaicians whose loss would have

a very sevare effect on the production of the refinery, Theac wen are
ll young, extremsly intelligent, well trained, and are: completely

; loyal ‘to the company. Thay have served immediately below the cuper-
intendent and the assistant superintendent. These four vould be. given

: inmadiate jobs in the US, because of. their outstanding backgrounds, it
| they were able to get out of Cuba. .

2. The top figure of the four is Loon Hequia Miya, who te « cpectolist ta
the Processing Department, one of the most important functions in the ©
plant. This. departzent's responsibilities deal with the physical processing
-of the product from crude to the finished material.

3. Hequin ie 32 years old, married, no children, but expecting a ehtia in "
Bee 60. He is a graduste of Auburn University, vith a degree in chenical
‘ex mechanical engineering. He is a Cuban national, I believe of the
Jewish faith. He ts about 5°10", weighs about 160 lbs, has close cropped
black hair, and is a very personable, intelligent. young man. He is a
very | good leader, end was definitely one of tho men on their way up
in the company.

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&  Hequin already hes been branded a counterrevolutionary in an official. Acta,
and has been taken out of the plant and put into the office. — Apparently |
the regime wanted to get him away from the productioa line for fear. of .
: possible sabotage, and also wanted to utilize. ‘bis undoubted: ‘talest and
_ Knowledge of the industry in, headquarters.

5. ‘Mequia is extrenaly eager to get ‘out of Cuba, but he. does. no have: a.
police exit permit, and since he has been branded counterrevolotionary .
he is afraid he would not get his ‘Passport: back: tf he Presented it for mo
s police permit.

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Acother outstanding young man is Eequin's assistant, Jose Ramon Alvarez,
ebout 31. He io a graduate of Auburu University and is a top flight |

engineer. Since Alvarez is single, ha‘ essys that he will weit until oe
the others get out of Cuba. Ha also wanta to hang back to be able .
to do some sabotage before he makes his departure. He believes that.
he will be able to get cut: on his-oun. Te
A third top flight mechanical engineer, who is extrenely.cager to leave
Cuba, is Santiago Pardo Suarez del Villar. He is about 35, a graduate

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" \of the Unfversity of Havana. Pardo is head of Maintenance and Construction,

|aad ip an extremely intelligent snd capable engineer. He is about —

5'8", weighs about 170 Ibs, ard has dark bleck ahair and a moustache... ;
‘The fourth io. Raul Capote Ortiz, a graduate of Louisiana State University.
\with the degree in chemical engineering. Capote is one of the top — :

technicians in the Processing Department. He io married, but I do
not know if he has any children. mo cet

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' - SUBJECT Operations of Refineries/Effect of Use DATE DISTR. 23 Aug 60

of Soviet Crude O1l/Jet Fuel Production
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t : Source has had years of expertence in company operations outside the us
! rn ond has been located in Cuba for many years. [Source ia normally avalle
; 0 So, able for reinterrogation should this report generate additional requirexsnts. ]
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4s of Aug 60 the three msjor refinerics confiscated by the Castro ragics
. 86 operating in fairly good shape. Their principal problem fa that :
tho Soviet crude being supplied is very light and they cannot run as
- bch volume because gae pressure builds up. The Esso refinery, for :
'- exemple, has a capacity of 36 thousand bbls per day on heavy crude, but ~
- . 26'thousand bbls per day fa the best they have been sbie to do on the ,
Sovist cruds, end it has been rmaing at a rate of only 20 thoussnd bbls
par dey since 20 Jul 60. . mo, ve

The Soviet crude available to dste hac been compatible with the refineries
and will not damage them, but in addition to not being able to get as
much volume, the refineries camot get as mich fuel ofl because of light
ends. Thie 49 trues of all three msjor refineries. .

The’ refinerats vere designed for 26 gtevity crude which is fairly heavy.
The Soviet crude is 33 gravity, end has caused en imbalance in that
‘they are now producing mora gezolins than is needed. As @ consequence,
Cuba is searchicg desperately for fuel of]. The USSR has eaid that it
. ig not in a position to. supply fuel ofl and so Cuba has turned toward
. Kexico, even to the extent of attempting to arrange deals whereby they
‘will trade gasoline fer fuel ofl. ; ; :
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The imbalances of gasolins is indicated by the fact that the Cabaiguin .
_¥efizsry was shut down recently becauze its gasoline storage was completely
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* Gown from 26 thousand bble per day to 20 thousand bble rer day because
__ fe had only a 10-dsy eupply of crude. The supply on hand was sufficient -
_° to last caly until 14 Aug, tut around 11 Aug the refinery was supposed 7
_* G0 receive # shipment of 80 thousand barrels of crude, However, this .
is only enough to operate four days. a Boe a
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4 . Operating Supplies for Rafineries/ ; " pe
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and has been located in Cuba for many yearo. (Source is normally ~
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1. As of Aug 60 ‘there is a shortage of lubriescing ofl in Cuba vhich will. oe

becoms critical in a fairly short tims. Grest efforts Dave bean made ~
by the Castro regize to obtain lubricating ofl from US supplicazrs, and - 2 FE
& vessel, the Mar Carite, hes visited a number of US porta attempting
te ‘obtein the ofl. However, it has been refused everywhere and had to .
Yeturn to Cubs in baliact. As of 10 Aug 60 it is loading molasses .
for delivery to Bostos, end will then Proceed . to Montreal in en attempt
to obtain lubricating oil,

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. A former Esso employee, Frank carcla, left Cuba on 2 Aug 60 for Hexico |
* to try to obtain lubricating oll. He ie going to visit the Mobile
blending plant, PEMEX, and several others.
a Rott. WGghlace , TU fam | hia,

A us nationai recently employed by ice to attempt to arrange for the
purchase of necessary supplies and spere parts for the ofl industry .
has been traveling throughout the SW part of the US, alco attempting to

errange for lubricating oil, but with no euccess. This individual is-
: such an unssvory chsracter chat {t 1s not beyond the bounds of probability
: that he might "go south" with the funds entrusted. ‘to him, which are :
considerable. Si

hese are 20 principal types of lubrétating oil needed for the totel
econony, end the actual etsatus of supply of each is-notimowmn. They
may be completely cut of some and have fisix months supply of others. ne
However, the general story is that there is a “one month supply” of

. lubricating oil available. — ;

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oe primary concern. They are in critically short supply in diesel lubricants.
a for engines and heavy equipment, and turbine oil for powsr pleats. .

there is no lubricating ofl manufactured on , the island ‘although ‘the.

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_ COUNTRY Cubs Cs . - REPORTNO. | OO-B-3,164,653
SUBJECT Friction in New Management of "BATE DISTR. 23 Aug 60
Reso. Refinery . . ; .
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SOURCE: US national, graduate engineer, an official on the otegt. of a large

Source has had years of experience ia conpany operations cutside tho
US and has been located im Cuba for mony years. (Source is normally
available for reinterrogation eskould this report: generate additioral
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1. Om 1 Jol 60 tia Cestro rogine intervened th Ease refinery in Cube.
The interventor sppointed vas Ceszander Olivio Pins, a ceresr ;
officer in the Cubsa Havy. Tho sumber two man is (fnu) Guardia,
about 35, a former marketing analyst in tha office of the cozpany. ;
’ As of Aug 60 there ig evidence of definite friction between Pino end
Guardia.

2. " Coamander Pino to an intelligent, affeble, and hospitable parsoaality. Pa: |
yore av barbode based? nw 0 the best of my knowledge has nover er |
worn a barbudo’ beard, ;
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that Pino is too soft and not revolutionary ancugh. Guardia wents to
take a hard line toward the employees. He wants to cut salaries and “gst ©
things in lina.” Pino knows thet ouch abrupt changes would rem lt in .
‘ a drastic drop in freffictoncy, and vould alicnate employees who, are at
least neutral at present. : :

There are indications that Pino recently told Guardia tn affect to stay
_ $2 the office end keep his mouth shot. °,

"pine te dicectly under Alfredo Gutidcres of TCP, and both are Ertends
and associates of Fidel Castro, not Radl, or "Che" Guevars. If eonathing
: happens’ to Fidel, both Pino and Guticrres would definitely be replaced

weer, because they are not the hard-boiled Party line typo.

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SUBJECT Leonel de Paula Arias, Of1 Industry «DATE DISTR. Tay :
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* and has been located in Cuba for many years. {Source is- normally available a

for pelanerrosetien! should this report generate additional requirements. ]. f
1. Ia Aug: 60 the Castro regina: sent two representatives to. the US to attempt | 4
to obtain replacement parts and machinery for the ofl industry.. One of S
these men is Julio Caunedo, on the staff of ICP, and the second is Leonel ~
de Paula Arias, a former. ¢ employee of Eso Standard oil SA, .- ; :
2. De Pula is about 28-29 years’ old, 6'1", 180 lbs. He has black curly hair. : g
and fair skin. He is married and I believe hao one child. He io a Roman &
Catholic; and has never been considered. as having any. left-wing: inclinations. q
3. De Paul speaks excellent English, and I believe studied in “the Us. Re haa 3

a degree in engineering and worked three years with the Esso refinery,
mainly | in taaintenance and construction. As of Jul 60 he was. section head
of the ‘Refining Department, Purchasing and Warehousing.

4. The choice of de ‘Paula to go to the US to obtain. necessary supplies ts
sound because he is the man which the company would have.chosen to do such

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a job 4£ required. He has a reputation of being a good hard worker, © ®
intelligent and dovendeble. He has « pleasant personality and handles :
himself very well. oo we
5. De. Paula was considered. one of the better. men of the pient : and could be
elessed as a key technician because of his knowledge, background, and

ability, end it would definitely hurt the Castro regime if he fled Cuba.
However, the opportunities for employment in the ofl industry in Latin
’ Americal are not good because there is considerable prejudice against

Cubsns oa the part of. other countries in which there are. ‘refining. operations.
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